{"id":19206,"date":"2020-06-11T19:54:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-to-establish-new-police-unit-to-enforce-new-security-laws"},"modified":"2020-06-11T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:54:43","slug":"hong-kong-to-establish-new-police-unit-to-enforce-new-security-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19206","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to establish new police unit to enforce new security laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Action arm\u2019 will have intelligence-gathering capabilities, security chief says, as state media says legislators are working \u2018day and night\u2019 on new laws<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s security chief has announced that a dedicated police unit is being set up and would be ready to enforce controversial new national security laws from day one.<\/p>\n<p>There is widespread international and commercial concern about the impact of the laws that are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/28\/china-vote-npc-national-security-laws-hong-kong-us-protest\">being imposed on the semi-autonomous region<\/a> directly by Beijing, bypassing Hong Kong\u2019s legislature. The move has prompted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/03\/britain-could-change-immigration-rules-for-hong-kong-citizens\">UK to offer a visa to millions of Hongkongers<\/a> if they felt uncomfortable staying.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/11\/hong-kong-to-establish-new-police-unit-to-enforce-new-security-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Action arm\u2019 will have intelligence-gathering capabilities, security chief says, as state media says legislators are working \u2018day and night\u2019 on new lawsHong Kong\u2019s security chief has announced that a dedicated police unit is being set up and would be r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19207,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19206\/revisions\/19207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}